Prayer is not something we do so that God can find out what we need, because Jesus tells us “Your Father knows what you need before you ask him” (Matthew 6:8). God wants us to pray because prayer expresses our trust in God and is a means whereby our trust in him can increase. In …
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Last week, we discussed that God exercises an extensive, ongoing, sovereign control over all aspects of his creation. With this understanding we can build on this knowledge and approach the question of miracles. We will define a miracle as follows: A miracle is a less common kind of God’s activity in which he arouses people’s …
After spending the last two weeks discussing that God is the all-powerful Creator, it seems logical to conclude that he also preserves and governs everything in the universe as well. Even though the word providence is not found in Scripture, it has been traditionally used to summarize God’s ongoing relationship in his creation. When we …
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At various time in history, Christians have found themselves dissenting from the accepted findings of contemporary science. In the vast majority of cases, sincere Christian faith and strong trust in the Bible have led scientists to the discovery of new facts about God’s universe, and these discoveries have changed scientific opinion for all subsequent history. …
How did God create the world? Did God create every different kind of plant and animal directly, or did he use some kind of evolutionary process, guiding the development of living things from the simplest to the most complex? How quickly did God bring about creation? Was it all completed within six twenty-four hour days, or …
